The Highest Post. See Britains Steward Turn'd Away And Stuart Scot now bearing Sway.
Etching. 128 x 171mm. 5 x 6¾". Paper toning and foxing. Small nicks to the edges. Vertical fold.
Pocket-sized satire. The Highest Post; the dismissal of the Duke of Newcastle, as the Scot Nobleman, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713-1792) walks in as the new Prime Minister. Taken frm a larger print by Darly. See ref: 17559 "The Triple Post."
See BM Satires: 3949.
[Ref: 17550] £90.00